Focus: How can we enhance student achievement in reading and writing through technology, including digital storytelling?
Updated 2/21: How can we promote 21st Century Learning skills and CONNECTED learning, as well as reading and writing, through the use of digital storytelling?
Rationale: We want to find engaging ways to
- Increase motivation
- Develop reading and writing skills ("Writers inspired by..."/ Authors as mentors)
- Provide 21st Century CONNECTED learning opportunities (i.e., communication, global audience, creativity, collaboration, addressing different learning styles, characteristics of successful learners ("habits of mind"))
- Increase technology skills
Questions:
How will the use of technology affect student achievement in reading and writing?
What does research say about the use of technology in developing literacy?
What steps are involved in the implementation of digital storytelling?
What materials do we need to successfully implement the steps?
What other approaches besides digital storytelling might we use to enhance literacy?
Can we incorporate collaboration among students with digital storytelling and/or other technologies?
What will we learn about student motivation from the use of digital storytelling in reading/writing instruction?
Notes 2/21:
Use response clickers to collect data at the end? Use these questions for discussion:
Opinions on Sock Puppets, One Smile, future suggestions? Collaboration?
If we used Sock Puppets again, what might we do differently? What could be better? Did anything frustrate you?
Is there anything you would want to do differently to make the One Smile project better?
What would you want to use Sock Puppets for?
If you had the chance to tape your joke again, what would you do differently?
What is your favorite way to tell a story? (paper, laptop, iPad, etc.)
Do you think repeated practice made your reading better?
Next Steps:
Have a discussion with students to reflect on the One Smile & Sock Puppets projects
Team 3: 21st Century Literacy
Focus: How can we enhance student achievement in reading and writing through technology, including digital storytelling?
Updated 2/21: How can we promote 21st Century Learning skills and CONNECTED learning, as well as reading and writing, through the use of digital storytelling?
Rationale: We want to find engaging ways to
- Increase motivation
- Develop reading and writing skills ("Writers inspired by..."/ Authors as mentors)
- Provide 21st Century CONNECTED learning opportunities (i.e., communication, global audience, creativity, collaboration, addressing different learning styles, characteristics of successful learners ("habits of mind"))
- Increase technology skills
Questions:
Notes 2/21:
Next Steps:
Possible Resources:
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2790
http://jonorech.wikispaces.com/
1. http://www.digitales.us/index.php
2. http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
3. http://www.digitalstories.org/
4. http://www.tech-head.com/dstory.htm
5. http://www.techteachers.com/digstory/ideas.htm
6. http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
7. http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm
8. http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/index.html
9. http://www.wsd1.org/digitalstorytelling/
10. http://clow.ipsd.org/lmc_storytellers_Tattle_Tales_2005_2006.html
11. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learnshops/digital/examples.php
12. http://www.umass.edu/wmwp/DigitalStorytelling/Digital%20Storytelling%20Main%20Page.htm